When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.
One of the things you can always depend on - this is one of the truths of the universe, and you heard it first from here - whatever we decide we want to do is what we do.
Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.
We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.